Isaiah 59:3-8

3 For your hands are stained with blood, your fingers with guilt. Your lips have spoken falsely, and your tongue mutters wicked things.
4 No one calls for justice; no one pleads a case with integrity. They rely on empty arguments, they utter lies; they conceive trouble and give birth to evil.
5 They hatch the eggs of vipers and spin a spider’s web. Whoever eats their eggs will die, and when one is broken, an adder is hatched.
6 Their cobwebs are useless for clothing; they cannot cover themselves with what they make. Their deeds are evil deeds, and acts of violence are in their hands.
7 Their feet rush into sin; they are swift to shed innocent blood. They pursue evil schemes; acts of violence mark their ways.
8 The way of peace they do not know; there is no justice in their paths. They have turned them into crooked roads; no one who walks along them will know peace.

Cross References 17

  • 1. S 2 Kings 21:16; S Isaiah 1:15; S Ezekiel 22:9
  • 2. Psalms 7:3
  • 3. S Isaiah 3:8
  • 4. S Isaiah 5:23
  • 5. S Job 15:31
  • 6. S Isaiah 44:20
  • 7. S Job 4:8; S Isaiah 29:20; James 1:15; Job 15:35; Psalms 7:14
  • 8. S Isaiah 11:8; Matthew 3:7
  • 9. S Job 8:14
  • 10. Isaiah 28:20
  • 11. S Psalms 55:9; S Proverbs 4:17; S Isaiah 58:4
  • 12. S 2 Kings 21:16; S Proverbs 6:17; S Micah 3:10
  • 13. S Proverbs 24:2; S Isaiah 26:10; Mark 7:21-22
  • 14. Romans 3:15-17*
  • 15. Romans 3:15-17*
  • 16. S Judges 5:6
  • 17. S Isaiah 57:21; Luke 1:79
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